HB 78

RELATING TO NUMBER PLATES.

Makes it illegal for any person to manufacture, sell, display, or possess any reproduction, imitation, or facsimile of a license plate with a similar design, shape, size, and color as the plates purchased by the Honolulu director of finance.

HB 79

RELATING TO SPECIAL NUMBER PLATES.

Allows the transfer of special number plates upon the transfer or sale of a vehicle. Authorizes the removal of an organization from the special number plates program if the organization does not achieve the requisite number of one hundred fifty participants within 3 years.

HB 88

HD1

RELATING TO CELLULAR PHONES.

Bans the use of hand held cellular phones while driving. Allows for the use of hands-free cellular phones. Provides exceptions for safety and medical emergencies. (HB88 HD1)

HB 289

HD1

RELATING TO CHILD ENDANGERMENT.

Establishes the offense of endangering the welfare of a child in a motor vehicle. (HB289 HD1)

HB 1585

RELATING TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A SALARY COMMISSION.

Proposes a constitutional amendment to establish a salary commission to review and make recommendations for the salaries of justices, judges, state legislators, the governor, the lieutenant governor, and state executive branch department heads and their assistants, excluding the University of Hawaii and the Department of Education.

RELATING TO EQUAL PAY.

Establishes a pay equity task force to review any relevant information and make recommendations for funds and specific actions to correct any gender-based pay inequities. Prohibits employers from wage discrimination on the basis of gender.

RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES.

Prohibits an employer or labor organization from discriminating against an employee who uses accrued and available sick leave in accordance with a valid collective bargaining agreement or valid employment policy; clarifies that the term "employee" includes an employee with a nonchronic condition of a short-term nature.

RELATING TO DRUG PARAPHERNALIA.

Amends certain provisions relating to the sale of drug paraphernalia.

RELATING TO DRUGS.

Repeals section 46-15.39, Hawaii Revised Statutes, returning traditional zoning regulatory authority in residential zones back to the counties.

HB 480

HD1

RELATING TO REGISTRATION OF MONEY TRANSMITTERS.

Creates a new chapter in the Hawaii Revised Statutes to register and regulate persons providing money transmission services. Effective date July 2099. (HB480 HD1)

RELATING TO THE HAWAII RULES OF EVIDENCE.

Allows individuals, corporations, and government entities to offer apologies or other expressions of sympathy without fear of such gestures being used against them to establish civil liability.

RELATING TO EXPUNGEMENTS.

Requires the deletion of digitized arrest records, rather than the return of hard copy materials, if applicable, and clarifies the definition of "crime" as it relates to expungeale offenses.

HB 710

RELATING TO THE HAWAII HISTORIC PRESERVATION SPECIAL FUND.

Clarifies that civil, criminal, and administrative penalties, fines, and other charges collected shall be deposited in the Hawaii Historic Preservation Special Fund. Allows Special Fund monies to be used to pay for staff positions and administrative and operational costs.

HB 131

HD1

RELATING TO MARINE RESERVES.

Creates the Hawaii Marine Managed Areas System Act. (HB131 HD1)

RELATING TO COUNTY LIQUOR COMMISSIONS.

Allows counties to regulate the liquor commissions within their own jurisdiction. Allows the counties to adopt ordinances that are consistent with, or more stringent than, with the intoxicating liquor statutes.

HB 1002

HD1

RELATING TO PUBLIC INTEREST ATTORNEYS.

Creates a loan repayment assistance program for licensed attorneys who practice public interest law in Hawaii. (HB1002 HD1)

RELATING TO DISORDERLY CONDUCT.

Prohibits public drunkenness.

RELATING TO PERSONAL RECORDS.

Requires police departments to provide access to statements made by requestor as a complainant in a criminal matter, whether originally made by the requestor in written, auditory, visual, electronic, or other physical form or later reduced to that form.

RELATING TO COMMUNITY RESTITUTION.

Changes the term "community service" to "community restitution".

HB 1523

HD1

RELATING TO LAND USE.

Repeals chapter 516, Hawaii Revised Statutes, relating to residential leaseholds. (HB1523 HD1)

RELATING TO ELECTIONS.

Adds a requirement that nonprofit organizations involved in polling not be a political action committee or political in nature. Makes it unlawful to use, print, publish, or distribute any voter registration information from affidavits or lists. Requires qualified political parties to submit names for precinct officials no later than the "40th" day, instead of the "60th day", before the close of filing for any election. Adds reciprocal beneficiary of a candidate to the list of those not eligible to serve as a precinct official in a candidate's precinct. Allows the watcher of a political party to be present at any time and to review the polling book but not to record confidential information.

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Rep. Sylvia Luke